ISO8583: Appropriate value for Field 43 Card acceptor name/location

Question

Hey In `43'th field` of ISO-8583 package which is Card acceptor name/location (1-23 address 24-36 city 37-38 state 39-40 country), should I assign value ? and what is the proper value?

Accepted Answer

Field 43 is card acceptor name and location, it's in the form of

```
Merchant name & location                 US
```

where merchant name & loc is fixed length of 38 and iso 2-letter country code is last two chars, and it's not a TLV

TLV tags are in the form of and tag id and tag value length and are typically of fixed size between 1 to 4 as defined by the implementation spec (but not necessarily, it may get complicated depending on the exact implementation spec, for example "if tag ID starts with `F` then it's of length 4 else its of length 2")

```
[tag id][tag value length][tag value]
```

for example tag 82FE containing "foo" in a tag id length of 4 and tag value length of 4 implementation would be written as

```
82FE003foo
```

but the exact look will depend on your spec

ISO8583: Appropriate value for Field 43 Card acceptor name/location

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